On 14 February 2013 15:49, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
> He's not wrong; if it is possible to effectively mobilize the world's > best experts in a major widely supported crowd sourcing project it could > be awesome. Any Wikipedia editor knows from experience that from time to > time you end up arguing with idiots and losing the argument by consensus. The trouble is that Larry will be running it. The arc of Citizendium, from launch sideways into the ground, was marked by Larry recruiting lots of high-powered academics then driving them away within a few months. (At which point the pseudoscientists and cranks moved in, and a bit after that the featured article was a puff piece on homeopathy.) He is demonstrably really, really terrible at community management. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
